This week Marvel have looked at a few key comics from legendary creator Walter Simonson as promotion for their digital store. The article, which features THOR #337, BALDER THE BRAVE #1, THOR #364, HAVOK & WOLVERINE: MELTDOWN #1 and FANTASTIC FOUR #337, acts as a nice overview of a few essential Simonson reads. Who knows, […]
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Writer Ryan Stegman’s fave Avengers…
As we get ready for the beginning of an Avengers fuelled week (in case you’ve been living in a cupboard for the last few months, the movie Avengers Assemble is released on Thursday 26th April!), Marvel have spoken to upcoming Fantastic Four artist Ryan Stegman, who looks at his list [of favourite Avengers] from a […]
Here Comes The Sun(set)
The very first original graphic novel from Image Comics Minotaur Press, titled Sunset and written by Christos Gage, will be released this July. “In the noir tradition of Chandler and Spillane, comes a two-fisted tale of revenge and redemption. On the surface, Nick Bellamy looks like any other veteran retiree left behind by a modern […]
Dark Horse offer ‘The Massive’ FREE for one day only
Dark Horse are offering a digital one-shot of The Massive, the new comic series by DMZ, Conan the Barbarian, and Northlanders writer Brian Wood which will launch in June. This lead-in to the series will be available digitally for FREE, but for one day only (Earth Day 2012 (Sunday, April 22)). If you like the […]
Black Panther and the FF talk from writer Jonathan Hickman
Marvel have spoken with ‘Fantastic Four’ writer Jonathan Hickman where the ex-King of Wakanda, the ‘Black Panther’ is due to hit the spotlight in ‘Fantastic Four #606’, due out May 23. Marvel’s First Family may never be the same again. It all revolves around the worldwide lack of a certain precious metal found only in […]
Have you taken the leap for ‘Grim Leaper’?
Grim Leaper writer Kurtis J. Wiebe has revealed his thoughts on the new series, debuting at the end of May. In the story, every time he dies, Lou Collins jumps into a stranger’s body, and just as he’s learning something about his new host, another gruesome accident sends him leaping to the next one. Lou […]
Pete’s ‘Bagge’ of tricks!
Peter Bagge, cartoonist and creator of Buddy Bradley, Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, Sweatshop, Apocalypse Nerd and Other Lives has a new series called Reset debuting with Dark Horse this week, and he has shared a little of his writing process… “…I used to do everything by hand, including writing out all my outlines and […]
DC speak ‘Night of the Owls’ with artist Rafael Albuquerque
More ‘Night of Owls’ promotion from DC, this time a comment from ‘Batman’ back-up artist Rafael Albuquerque. In the brief article, he talks of his working methods with writer Scott Snyder. Full story.
A ‘Fraction’ of an Interview
Marvel have spoken this week with Matt Fraction, one of the busiest writers in the comic book industry today. Currently involved with ‘Avengers vs. X-men’, ‘Invincible Iron Man’, ‘The Mighty Thor’ and ‘Defenders’, amongst others, Fraction talks about AvX and his love of comics stemming from ‘Secret Wars’, “My favorite fights were, well, all of […]
DC ‘Night of the Owls’ Free Digital Checklist
DC have made a free digital booklet available that chronicles the entire Night of the Owlsevent. The booklet features a checklist of all issues that are part of the event, including Batman, Nightwing, Detective Comics, Batwing, Batgirl, Birds Of Prey, Catwoman, Red Hood And The Outlaws, All-Star Western and Batman: The Dark Knight. The digital […]
Top Cow’s Artifacts online for FREE!
Top Cow will be posting pages of Artifacts on their homepage (topcow.com) for free. From this week, you can go to the website and read one page per week for free. As this is the debut week, there are three pages up so far. A new page will be posted every subsequent Tuesday from here […]
New ‘Old Comics’ in the Library of American Comics
IDW have announced a great new series of the Library of American Comics ESSENTIALS premiering in September. The hardcover books will feature a year’s worth of daily newspaper strips that are essential to the history of comics presented in an oblong novel format, 11″ wide by 4.25″ high. Each page will showcase the title given […]